Resultados para "Echo" en Música

When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past. Eichler shows how four towering composers - Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich - lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving works of music.

For millennia, the sacred drummers of pre-Christian Mediterranean and western Asia were women. In this inspiring book, Layne Redmond, herself a renowned drummer, tells their history.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past SUNDAY TIMES OF...

Rhythm of Resistance: The Soulful Echoes of Black Musicians in the Era of Martin Luther King Jr. (1957-1968) is an essential story that illuminates the crucial role of music during the Civil Rights Movement and a tribute to musicians who revolutionized the music scene during this period.